"Not only am I an American, but a librarian. I have read Romance of the Three Kingdoms parts one and two. These games do NOTHING to capture the spirit of these stories. If someone made a video game about the novels of Louis Ferdinand Celine, I would be pumped...unless it was insipid, one button gameplay like DW has been since day one. These games are horrible as games, and as interpretations of the novels. Yeah, remember that part part in the story when Zhuge Liang ran around battles he was not present for (Yellow Turban Rebellion) killing people with a feather fan? I don't."
Who the **** cares? Seriously, it's a video game; it's supposed to be fun. Even if Dynasty Warriors doesn't have deep combat or an engrossing story (the novel was fantastic, though, and I agree that it fails to capture its greatness), it's still a fun ride while it lasts. Sometimes you want to take a break from overly complicated games, and games like Dynasty Warriors or Gauntlet Legends are great ways to do it.
So really, no one gives a crap that all you pretentious tools do all day is troll through IGN's reviews to see which games are good and which aren't. I, on the other hand, have a mind of my own and am fully capable of deciding whether a not a game is worth my time. The Dynasty Warriors series may not be a good series, but hell if isn't a damn fun one.