I recently bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII for PS2 and it got me interested in the 3 kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Its a pretty fascinating time in which the decline of the Han dynasty led to the breakup of China into a number of smaller kingdoms. Eventually a new dynasty was created out of the chaos, but it takes nearly 200 years. In the meantime you have a peasant rebellion by the yellow turbans, a murderous dictator in Dong Zhou, a number of betrayal and major battales which dwarf the numbers seen in the west at this time.

Plus you have a number of incredibly interesting characters and the interplay between them. The 5 tigers and Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, the murder of Lu Bu by Dong Zhou over a woman, the manipulation of and eventual murder of the last Han emporer, etc...

Anyway, just wanted to point out that there is other history than WWII. I really enjoyed reading more about a time period of which I really had no prior knowledge.

Originally posted by joycem10
I recently bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII for PS2 and it got me interested in the 3 kingdoms period of Chinese history.Always good to see another keen one. :) I've posted a link to my RoTK VII thread in that thread of yours in Other Games. ;)

Its a pretty fascinating time in which the decline of the Han dynasty led to the breakup of China into a number of smaller kingdoms. Eventually a new dynasty was created out of the chaos, but it takes nearly 200 years. In the meantime you have a peasant rebellion by the yellow turbans, a murderous dictator in Dong Zhou, a number of betrayal and major battales which dwarf the numbers seen in the west at this time.I believe it's more like 300 or more years between the fall of the Eastern Han and the rise of the Sui towards the end of the 6th century.

Also, it's Dong Zhuo, not Dong Zhou... ;)

Plus you have a number of incredibly interesting characters and the interplay between them. The 5 tigers and Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, the murder of Lu Bu by Dong Zhou over a woman, the manipulation of and eventual murder of the last Han emporer, etc...You'll have to remember - RoTK is a literary creation. Some parts of it are probably simply fiction. I know some characters are like never mentioned in the official histories, whereas some minor ones actually played a more important role in real history.

Oh, and it's the murder of Dong Zhuo by his trusted lieutenant, Lu Bu, due to a ploy by a Han loyalist. Not the other way round...

Did you read the books?

i must admit Ive only really looked throught the bios in game and a couple of pages on the internet. id played III before but never really loked into the history.

might have to take a look at the books sometime...

The game huh .... I saw the whole TV series on tape a couple of years ago. The game must be interesting.

do you know chinese or japanese?

Originally posted by Nobunagatenno
do you know chinese or japanese? You don't need to know Chinese or Japanese to be able to read the Romance books - there're Western translations for all the major classical works of China out there.

Even I can't read Chinese, despite being Chinese... ;) Except for manga...

great, i cant even imagine speaking japanese or chinese let alone reading it. i think i might have to look a little further into the history and the books sound interesting.