Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance never received a sequel, leaving Raiden's future development up in the air.
While Raiden unambiguously learned something from Armstrong, his willingness to fight his own war suggests it was simply the drive to achieve his goal by any means necessary. However, after all the effort Rising puts into rejecting them, it's unlikely this is the case. Both men were disgusted by systems that festered corruption, but Armstrong blamed the weak while Raiden abhorred the strong. This distinction is important because some fans interpret Raiden echoing Armstrong's words at the end as him embracing his rival's ideals.
Related: Metroid Dread: Who Is ADAM (and Why Do Fans Hate Him)? Instead, Rising takes the more humanist position that people alone define their morality. While the game is not necessarily anti-capitalist, having Armstrong's PMC perpetuate conflict and steal children's organs for profit shows how exploitative the structure can be. These grotesque twists proclaim that capitalism can be corrupted because it's an economic system, not a comprehensive theory of ethics. Tying into this rejection of the powerful, Rising denies objectivism's claim that capitalism is inherently moral. Related: Castlevania's Most Interesting Belmont Is Its Last One That loss motives him to protect the powerless from similar abuses inflicted by the powerful. By contrast, Raiden was stripped of his humanity and has struggled ever since to reconnect with it. For all their bluster, men like Armstrong do not live up to their own ideals. This is further reflected by his famous nanomachines, which give him superhuman strength he never earned. However, as Raiden points out, Armstrong knows nothing about "the weak." He's lived a life of privilege that wasn't achieved by his own merits.
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