I'm a fan of old school shooters, mostly for their easy to pick up and play but hard to master movement and style of weapons. Aside from Shotguns, my favourite weapons tend to use projectiles. I tend to find them much more interesting and varied than bullet weapons. I find it very rewarding to try and get a blue plate special (direct hit in the air) in Tribes because it's challenging. Even if I suck at games, I am a fan of difficult games and that satisfaction when I do finally succeed. While I've been liking Tracer because I mained Scout in my thousand+ hours in TF2 (I like agile squishy characters), for the rest I've found myself mostly wanting to play Junkrat, Genji and Hanzo, due to their projectiles being difficult but rewarding (plus I like their movement). I've mostly just been playing Hanzo in quickplay over and over and at first I was completely atrocious but it's getting better and better, and I like seeing that progress. It's something that's fun to me to try and get better at.
Thing is, Hanzo seems to be one of the most hated characters in the game, especially in Competetive. Appearantly that's because a lot of people pick him and can't aim for shit. Even if they can aim for shit, often Widowmaker is just considered a more effective choice. I've noticed Widowmaker is way less punishing and easier to aim with compared to the TF2's sniper as I'm atrocious with the Sniper yet pretty good with Widowmaker. However I just don't find widowmaker nearly as fun to play. And in competetive it's easy characters > Harder characters in most situations, and I happen to find harder characters more fun as even if I can still suck with easier ones, there's much more going on I can try to get better at with the harder ones. It's for this reason I've never really seen the appeal in Competetive Overwatch, I'll mostly have to play characters I don't like much just because they're easier for me to kill things with, and that never gives me any practice on the harder ones.
But even in Quickplay Hanzo is still hated on more it seems than any other character. I kinda get it if people suck ass, but where else are they supposed to learn to target human players? And then there's people complaining people pick him and Genji just because they're weeaboos? The fuck? The character's designs have had no influence whatsoever as to why I play them.
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