[Illusion]

I'm sorta waiting on a Assassin's Creed collection personally. :/ I don't want to buy 5 (6?) different games just to get caught up with a story that I don't really like so much. (My Ex-Girlfriend played Assassin's Creed religiously if you know what I mean, so of course I had to study up on Assassin's Creed. Long story short I got her brothers hooked on Skyrim and she never saw the Xbox again. We broke up well after.)

The game-play looks fun, but I'm not positive I want to start the series until a cheap bundle comes out with all the DLC ect.

Just out of curiosity, if I bought the games is there any game I can skip anything Storywise? Does one game easily explain what happens in the next? Or do I really need to buy every game to know what the hell is going on? I read up on the series before and got confused and alienated from it real fast.