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We don't know for 4 anyway because it's not out yet. But I think they've made it clear that 4 is like this grand finale to every arc thus far so... I'm betting it'll be pretty important.

As for 3... I mean you don't necessarily have to play the previous games to understand it but there's quite a few moments where there's an emotional cue that comes from playing the previous games that'll be completely absent without them. Your actual enjoyment of the game would certainly suffer.

But that's only assuming that you actually enjoyed and have fond memories of those games. If the prospect of playing the old games puts you off so much to the point that you're forcing yourself to play them, to be honest you probably won't benefit that much from them. Like, even if you know the character, if you don't give a shit about that character regardless it's not going to matter lol
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