Just watched another video from the same channel as the video I briefly discussed in my previous post.

Thinking back throughout my thirty years of playing video games, I pick characters that "fit my hands" first, and if that's a wash, that are aesthetically appealing second, and if that's a wash, that no one else wants to play third.

Some pseudo-randomly selected games: in "Rampage", one of my childhood favorites, I always played with Ralph, because I thought that George and Lizzie were ugly. In "Street Fighter II", it was the defensive zoning guys like Ryu and Sagat; in "Way of the Warrior", it was Konotori. In the "Streets of Rage" games, I tended to play Blaze because my friends always chose Axel.

One exception is in "One Must Fall: 2097", where Katana-- a super offensive, technical pick-- is my primary choice. But even then, I think that's because aesthetically, I thought and still think that it's easily the coolest character in the game.