IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[Otter]

Because

Kerotan said:

SpokenTruth said:

Yet another black guy or yet another bassy voiced hulking character using street slang?

See, the first one is bad.  The second one is a character trope.  People get tired of character tropes.  Remember the bald, space marine trope? The shirtless, bandana wearing Rambo trope? Or the buxom busted chick with attitude trope?  It's not their race.  It's not their sex.  It's not the their demeanor.  It's their trope.  A combination of character traits that may start off interesting but then itself becomes a generic character type that gets boring after the nth iteration.

But why does it have to bewhite? Why can't it be a biker of any colour? He could have said this instead.   "“While I’ll admit that I initially rolled my eyes at yet another Gruff Protagonist." I removed the white and male. Gender and skin colour shouldn't be an issue. 

Because racial representation is also part of the trope, just like gender is. Tell me how many grizzly stumbles black leads there are in games?

Later critique of their personality being generic and still fulfilling a trope would still be fair but on appearance they’d at least be doing something uncommon and providing some nice representation.