I think people give Absolution a bad rap. Or at least for the wrong reasons.

Absolution is not a bad game. It's just a really shitty Hitman game. It's a fine narrative driven linear game (not great, but good enough), but the entire point of the Hitman series is being basically a collection of small sandboxes with goals to achieve within them however you please; completely at odds with a linear story driven experience.

Cool, I don't see Thief mentioned too often anymore. Deadly Shadows got a lot of shit too, but it made up for it with some awesome levels like Shalebridge cradle and the House of the widow Moira. The 2014 reboot gutted almost everything that made Thief great, I like to pretend it never existed.