Without related KOEI games, we would have talked of the 3 kingdoms age as today?

Because I guess is safe to assume that Total War: Three Kingdoms is a balancing act between Romance and Dynasty Warriors KOEI series, I am wondering: if the same KOEI would have never started to make 3 kingdoms games in first place (but also Nintendo's will to make translated english versions because it was the first to accept those series), we would have arrived to consider and be interester that particular period of Chinese history as we are now? It would have sufficed to have sparkled such interest movies done in China such as Red Cliffs - even assuming there would have been such movie or other ones in first place without a first basic acknowledgemet of such historic period?

(I think is safe to post here the question because is founded over a series of games which came out in the 1990's and the matter is more of sociocultural nature than pure videoludic)
 
I mean, I don't think the KOEI games have had that much penetration in the west. Obviously, they've helped popularise the subject with gamers in the west to some degree, but they've not revolutionised western understanding or appreciation. It's been a niche advance, amongst only some gamers.

In China, the Three Kingdoms period has been a massive thing in Chinese historical folklore for a very, very long time; the romance goes back to the 14th century after all. The nearest analogy in the west would be the standing of Caesar and the Julio-Claudians off the back of Shakespeare.
 
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