re: I wish I had known Assassins Creed years ago

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im weird about having to start a series from the beginning so i can fully understand the story and that would take forever

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I have that same hangup. It's the sole reason why I haven't done the Xenosaga series.

I will say that I don't think it's as critical with the Assassin's Creed series. They're designed to not alienate new players. You can jump in at any point and be more or less okay because the overall narrative is relatively loose.

Basically all you need to know is government that leans too far left or right (read: Templars) = bad, but libertarianism (read = Assassins) = good and that this struggle has been reiterated for thousands of years. I've found that most of the stuff regarding the precursors is relatively self-contained for each flagship title. If you play the spin-offs from a flagship title, playing the original title from that first makes sense, but it's not necessary for me to play Assassin's Creed II to understand the overall narrative of Odyssey, for instance.