Good start or play 1 and 2 first?

[ChaosBahamut]

As someone who's never played a Desperados game, should I play 1 and 2 first or is this a good starting point?

[Yatol]

3 is good start

[Stan]

This is a good start. The 1, then 2 and lastly helldorado.

[loquee]

Despite the 3 in the name, this is actually a prequel.
No knowlegde of any Desperados game needed.

[ChaosBahamut]

That'll do it then.

[Nico Gorsberg]

If I had to recommend the series to someone, I would suggest to start with Wanted Dead or Alive, then the demo of WDoA, then D3.
I don't know for D2 and Hell Dorado. I bought them, but D2 doesn't start.

[antipodal]

I agree that this is a fine place to start the series. You could also play in release order (in which case, Helldorado is basically Desperados 2.5).

D1 was updated a couple years ago to work with modern systems, so you should have no issues there. D2 and Helldorado were not updated, and like the above commenter, they gave me problems trying to play. I had to use Mesa3d drivers[fdossena.com] to run them under Windows 10. Both games work fine with Mesa, but with a much lower framerate than your hardware would otherwise get. If you have a way to boot into Linux, D2/Helldorado runs very well through Valve's Proton compatibility layer.

[Nico Gorsberg]

Originally posted by antipodal:

I had to use Mesa3d drivers[fdossena.com] to run them under Windows 10. Both games work fine with Mesa, but with a much lower framerate than your hardware would otherwise get

thanks for the tip, I was able to start D2

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

This one was made for the mainstream audience actually. That's why it's not as hard as the classics.

[Iso Koala]

This definitely has plenty of modern quality of life changes into it (like no RNG damage when shooting), but otherwise I dont think its easier than old ones. Desperados 1 is in fact much more easily cheesable/exploitable than this, and learning few tricks will get through any situation without much effort. Same cant be said here, you need more situational awareness in this.