Mr_Karate_II posted...
You learn the story from playing them in order and learn about the lore of the games.
Also TC, if you can find the CG animated films because they add to the story and lore of the games.
As a huge fan of the RE series and it's lore.
It's dumb as shit and about as deep as Abby from TLOU2. That's kinda why I love it. It's just dumb fun.
I don't think newcomers experience much by starting with with RE1 as opposed to RE2 or 4 or 7. The games hardly even reference each other and reoccuring characters flat out change personalities and sometimes backstories between games. Leon in RE2,4,6 and the CGI movies are unrecongizable aside from their hair.
Just avoid 5,6, Dead Aim, Survivor, Umbrella Coprs and Operation Racoon city
Long as you do that, nothing else really matters.