Do i need to play older games to understand the story ?

[soul like that be capable of]

I am not sure how many games are there in this series. How many do i need to replay to understand what going on in this game ?

[Darth Tojo]

Yes, this is the second game in the series. the first one was Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. you can watch a short video on youtube about the story if you dont wanna play it though

[Scarla8888]

Yes, it’s a sequel of Fallen Order.

If you want to catch up on the story just YouTube the full fallen order story, still plenty of time till this releases to watch just the story.

[R ☰ Y K T]

You will also have a video recap available in the main menu before starting your playthrough on this one if you want :)

[soul like that be capable of]

thank you :)

[Mathias Giovanni]

You could speed run it I suppose. Might be able to finish it in about 15 hours before this one goes live.

[Griever]

People say yes yes yes but I say no, you don't need to play the first game.
I played the first game, and the story is cookie cutter vanilla Disney nonsense that I already forgot. All you need to really know is that Cal Kestis is a Jedi Knight, and you are in the time period after the Republic fell and the Empire took over.

You really don't need to play the first game unless you really want to.
It's not a game with massive lore that you need to play.
Most of the first game revolves around uninteresting events that make Cal stronger as a Jedi and which you don't need to remember (I already forgot everything).

[soul like that be capable of]

Originally posted by Griever:

People say yes yes yes but I say no, you don't need to play the first game.
I played the first game, and the story is cookie cutter vanilla Disney nonsense that I already forgot. All you need to really know is that Cal Kestis is a Jedi Knight, and you are in the time period after the Republic fell and the Empire took over.

You really don't need to play the first game unless you really want to.
It's not a game with massive lore that you need to play.
Most of the first game revolves around uninteresting events that make Cal stronger as a Jedi and which you don't need to remember (I already forgot everything).

Yes i listen to a short story recap on youtube. i dont think i want to play 1st one where you are weak jedi growing into a powerful jedi you start at 2nd game. so i am good

[Silverino]

There's literally a file in the pre-downloaded 'Movies' folder by the name of 'StorySoFar'.
That'll probably get you up to speed.
Unless it refers to something else, which seems unlikely.

[Awac]

You don't have to play it. But it is still a good game, good story and worth playing if you haven't.

[taeles]

Originally posted by R ☰ Y K T:

You will also have a video recap available in the main menu before starting your playthrough on this one if you want :)

I do love it when devs do a recap video in the main menu :)

[Draeka3]

Like @Scarla8888 said : It's a sequel.
The game being a sequel you'll miss on a lot by not playing the previous one.
So yes, you should play the previous one.

[Griever]

Originally posted by XAru:

Yes i listen to a short story recap on youtube. i dont think i want to play 1st one where you are weak jedi growing into a powerful jedi you start at 2nd game. so i am good

I would have recommended you played the first one if the story was really needed and compelling, but really, it's 20-30 hours of going planet to planet to only get stronger, and lots of what you actually do doesn't serve as plot points for the second game. Also, the main villain from the first game is defeated in the first game, so the second game is a brand new story. They clearly intended this game for people that also never played the first one.

And I imagine in the future third game (I bet my right hand this will be a trilogy), it will be the same thing. These are really self contained episodes.