Ok, I decided to post this here, cause after more than 18,000 frags, many of you know me and have played with me in the mountain, you know my play style, you know I am far from pro, and although I have managed to win some matches, I still make many noob mistakes, I struggle a lot, but something I do not do is quit, cause I love this game a lot, UT is simply awesome, no matter what.
After this intro, lets get to the issue. I have never joined reddit, but once in a while I like to browse some of the subreddits, and there is this particular "Arena FPS" one. And they posted some sort of graph which I will attach here. On one end it puts a game like Halo as "accessible" and a game like UT or Quake as "unaccessible". And I am like...really?  Now I don't know what criteria these people are using, but my personal opinion, UT is far from unaccessible (I even think I wrote Helen about this before). This is one of the most flexible games ever. You can bring the bots down to novice and you are guaranteed to win with the most basic moves. Really, if you struggle with a bot on novice, you should find some other form of entertainment.  This game is in the "very easy to learn, very hard to master" category. Or am I wrong?
Something I have noticed about this particular subreddit, ArenaFPS. In theory, it is about Quake, UT and similar games. In practice, they consider Quake the "superior game".  The post have a very "elitist" tone, at least that is my perception. And they mostly talk about games that are Quake clones, more than anything. I will say this: I have played some Q3A, I have managed to finish the ladder and beat Xaero (ok, on Bring It On difficulty, but still...), I tried Xonotic, I even tried some Quake Champions once. And you know what? I would not trade UT for anything. I since uninstalled all those mentioned games, cause I am focusing exclusively on this one. I will make an effort to get better everyday, learn from my mistakes, I will approach it more casually than competitively though, cause in the end it is all about having fun. But the bottom line, this is an accessible game. Very accessible. I mean, If I have learned to play it, there is no reason anyone else could not.

Well, I don't know if I should post the link, I really don't think it is worth it. First of all I am not a member, and second, the thread has diverted into something totally different, now they are discussing if Halo should be considered a game similar to UT. 
The point is, they should not scare people into trying this game, cause it is fun, at least I have lots of fun.
You know, I tried the Halo PC port once, there is a multiplayer version, but I quickly got bored. The game is so slow, there is a lot of weapon reloading, and they are very similar, and you can't carry more than two. And there is no dodging. What Halo did was take lots of things from UT, literally the "Killing Sprees" and "Double Kills" and the game modes, and watered them down for the consoles. Now they all think Halo created these things. 
But does this make UT "unaccessible" (whatever it means)? I don't think so.

I've got both CS and Halo.  Quickly tired of them both decades ago.  UT is the only FPS I've played that keeps me coming back for daily punishment.