With DD I was actually looking forward to the challenge of that opponent, as the end section of the game was relatively easy, but I didn't have any problems at all and it was a disappointingly quick fight (even if it wasn't, there are lots of effective techniques and exploits in the game).
I can not comment about the end of FoV, but Lar said it was balanced to be challenging, that they should have added something to allow for people who found it too tough and they would look at fixing that. How does that become 'We are so elite and now stop whining'???
There are people who find D2:ED too hard on easy difficulty and not hard enough on hard, so comments about the difficulty balancing a game are accurate.
You could still be right about the dog, though...
