Someone out there want to try to convince me to continue with Dishonored 2?

I have had this title in my library for a long time. After completing Cult of the Lamb, which I absolutely loved, I found myself in an all too familiar situation: I have no idea what to try to play next. I will tell you right away, I am a fickle gamer and there are a lot of things that can chase me away from a game very early on. If the controls aren't perfect, if it isn't clear WTF you are supposed to actually do, if the game is too hard, if the controls get thrown at you fast and furiously, I am out the door to never return.

I have Dishonored and Dishonored 2 but in an earlier poll people had suggested that D2 is a much better game, so I went straight into the action as far as that one is concenred.

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I feel like they do a decent enough job of getting you through the starting scenes of this game and giving you enough of the story to get you interested in playing. This is also the tutorial so they are able to introduce you to the major controls and I think they do this quite well in that they don't bombard you with 20 different buttons right away. This is always a way to get me to quit. You have to ease me into a game and not just tell me all of it at once. I get that this is difficult for them to get just right and to cater to gamers like me because if they do it too slowly, their likely target audience of people who have no patience for extended tutorials are going to walk away in much greater droves than later adopters like me are going to. Actually, I think the only reason why I have access to either one of these games is because Bethesda realizes that they cannot possibly sell any more copies of it and that is why it is free.

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Government that you are a part of gets overthrown by baddies and blah blah blah, you have to make your way out of the city without being killed. They tell you that you can play the game any way that you want, you can run and gun and blast everyone, you can use environmental distractions, or you can use pure stealth to get your way through levels. Let me tell you, if you are someone that managed to run down the middle of the street and simply kill everyone with zero stealth I am at a loss as to how you made that happen. If I was ever faced with more than one opponent I quickly met my death and a thankfully, not too long loading screen to get back to my most recent checkpoint.

I can see no way that a person could get past that first mission without using stealth and simply avoiding enemies by taking the back alleys and hiding a bunch. When I made it to the boat that is docked outside the city I had only killed a couple of enemy soldiers and taken a ton of damage. This health drop was helped by all the fruit that just happened to be sitting around in the buildings that I was able to make my way through.

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The first mission is called "A Long Day in Dunwall" and the graphics are pretty solid but already I kind of feel like combat is a bit wonky like it hasn't been fully refined. Stealth is easy enough because the AI is really really stupid but another aspect of the game that I didn't particularly care for is also something that annoyed me a bit about other Bethesda games and that is the constant gathering of items that are mostly garbage. This was an issue for me in Fallout because I would rather not even have access to a vast majority of the stuff that I found. When you encounter a safe I think it would be useful to have something actually good be inside that safe, or not have the safe there at all.

Mostly I am complaining about this game because I don't particularly care for stealth games. In Assassins Creed games for example, I very rarely go for stealth and instead just take on everyone at once with my level being OP compared to them. I guess this is a form of cheating but whatever man! It's how I play.

So I guess my question to those of you out there that liked or played this game is this: Is this a stealth game primarily? Because if that is the case I don't think I should really bother going any further. I know that I am not going to like it because like my brother said when I was talking to him the other day "you spend all this time making progress and then you do ONE tiny thing wrong and now you have to do it all over again because you were never meant to be able to overpower everyone in that room/area."

So, what say you? Do I have more options later in the game or is this a "careful who you interact with" game all the way through because if that is the case, I'll save myself some time and just walk away now.