IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[DonFerrari]

When people defended the reviewer that complained there were no black people in Kingdom Come Deliverance, why would we expect that people wouldn't side with this guy that instead of complaining that a char is unidimensional (he isn't) he had to make sure to mention the color. And the reason people would defend the attack on the trope of gruffy white male at the same time they defend attacks on angy black woman or gangsta black man is because they think the first is good portrayl of a person so could be black and the second and third are bad characteristic so shouldn't be black.

https://kotaku.com/idiots-fight-to-keep-a-medieval-game-white-1516970808
https://www.quora.com/Kingdom-Come-Deliverance-was-accused-of-racism-for-not-having-people-of-color-in-game-Historically-how-many-people-of-color-were-in-Medieval-Europe-1300-1400-in-what-regions-were-they-concentrated-and-how-did-they
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-20-kingdom-come-deliverance-review

Let's also not forget the thread on Witcher 3 adaptation.

EDIT:

It's quite easy to see that being gruff isn't bad, so being a gruff white male isn't bad. Being angry or tuggish is considered bad, so being angry black woman or tuggish black man is bad. And most importantly when there is no reason for that characterist and the char doesn't have other traits it is a bad development, but if char have plenty of other traits and his traits have explanation it isn't a trope nor is it a bad thing.

Last edited by DonFerrari - on 10 March 2019