Firstly, Bethesda didn't make Dishonored. They only published it - it was made by Arkane Studios, the guys behind Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
As for the game itself...ehhh.
I liked that Dishonored borrowed many ideas from Thief 2 (since Thief 2 was an absolute masterpiece), but...I don't know, the new aspects of Dishonored's design just came off as flawed and annoying. The guards felt too stupid and too easy to kill, the upgrades mostly seemed to relate to killing enemies, the few missions that I played were rather dull, and the game generally didn't seem to strike a wonderful balance between combat and stealth options. I found the setting and lore to be really interesting, but I didn't find the characters or story to be interesting at all.
Overall, whenever I tried to play Dishonored, I was just constantly reminded of how excellent Thief 2 was, and felt like playing that game instead. I gave up on it pretty quickly.
*edit* Ninja'd on every point. I completely agree with barrybarryk.
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