Can I play Kingdom Come Deliverance II without playing the first one? Should I play the first one?

So I tried KCD 1 like 7 years ago (I obtained it with an... alternative method, but I was a teen without much money) and I put it down pretty early on, as it didn't run too good on my laptop back then, and also it didn't really hooked me.

Now that the new KCD game is out, I'm thinking of giving it another try, now with a PC that could actually handle both games, but I know that if I try to get into a game franchise for the sake of its newest installment, I can't really stick to it's predecessor as I lose interest pretty fast in anticipation of the newest one in the series, unless the previous games are absolutely mandatory, or if they're good enough to hook me 110%.