I was reading the Shogun Academy, checked some of their linked forum articles here on muskets. In particular, this one gave me a chuckle. They sounded like old samurai and bushi. "Those guns and muskets are too powerful! There is no way a peasant can beat a samurai, this is ridiculous!" I laughed. No, really, I did laugh. There's a reason the unification of Japan and the subsequent invasion of Korea used muskets. Same reason that when Japan finally came out of her shell, she used the firearms of the day instead of samurai with their o-yoroi.

So was it really so bad when MI came out? Or am I just seeing the difference in style between gamers and sim fans?