I will say this thinking about how they want it to be accessible and I posted it in the gaming side thread.
I didn't get Xbox Live until a year after Halo came out. Now with games today if that happened I would get my ass handed to me but with Halo 2's 1-50 system when I started out I was matched with people of my skill and I learned the game with them, it was very accessible and the rank wanted me to play and learn more about the game. I feel like giving people power weapons or the weapon the want at the start is not a good way to make a game accessible, if you want to make a game accessible you have them LEARN and want to learn about it and not just handing things out. Its just not a very good thing for the game and something that is VERY bad for Halo.
EDIT: What I am saying is that the 1-50 system is what made Halo accessible to me because I was playing with people similar to me and made me want to do better and learn more about the game.