Will you play a sequel without its prequel?

[Grey Acumen]

Oh yeah, I forgot another game I played without playing its prequel: Blood Omen 2. I only played it cause it was free. It SEEMS like there's a lot of backstory that was in the first game that I missed, but I actually went back and tracked down the first Blood Omen game, and the gameplay was just UTTERLY different, so I haven't really run into a lot of whatever story elements there are yet.

Usually I don't like playing a game that is 2nd or 3rd in the series unless I know that there isn't really much of a plot or storyline to the game to worry about, like Super Mario Bros or Sonic the Hedgehog.