cw8: Milk is one thing. Blatantly changing the course of history or the tellings of the novelised version of the real history by putting events that never happened into the games is another. Kinda sad that part of real history is now being recognised as a game; i.e. people saying Guan Yu is a general from Dynasty Warriors instead of a famed general from the Three Kingdoms era in China after the downfall of the Han Dynasty. Or plain saying stuff that didn't happen at all like the one I replied to the other day who said "Guan Yu took Red Hare from Lu Bu" when it was Cao Cao that gave the Red Hare to Guan Yu after executing Lu Bu.
I guess I've to be more open-minded about this, since they had turn-based Three Kingdoms RPG/strategy games similar to Langrisser, that had alternate endings to historical events if you did things the other way. And that was in the mid 90s. And their Romance of The Three Kingdoms grand strategy games since the early 90s allowed you to unify China as any warring or custom made faction like what Paradox games, i.e. Crusader Kings represent now.
It could be worse, it could be like Koihime Musou. ;)
I take it you've read the book(s)? I bought 2 translations, but one of them was pretty poor. The other one was an excellent read, and it's one of my favorite books. I never had a chance to give the original games a fair shot, and I'd love to after recently replaying Lords of the Realm, Sword of the Samurai, Master of Magic, Master of Orion 1 + 2, and some other classic strategy games here. In the worst case, at least there's RotTK XI on GamersGate.
