IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[ArchangelMadzz]

DonFerrari said:

LuccaCardoso1 said:

But a game is not released on a void. Criticizing a game for lack of originality is completely valid.

Even when the game is original and the fact a person is a gruff white male is just one very small part of his traits? The game isn't unoriginal, the char isn't just gruff (since white male is basically irrelevant).

That is basically the moronic way of reviewing a game for what you wanted it to be instead of what it is.

"Ow great, another FPS, 3/10".

Your comment is 100% correct. He's not a bad character because of the unoriginal design. The writer goes on to say he's a very good character. 

I can see a game come out and think 'oh great another battle royale game' that's perfectly valid. But that doesn't mean I'm allowed to leave it there if I go into it and examine it and see it does some things different and very great then my opinion is changed. Which is exactly what happened to the writer of the article.