IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[Kerotan]

Otter said:

Kerotan said:

I agree with your point regarding America that white people are not as dominant as they once were. But the point I'm trying to make regarding India is you could just as easily say, oh another Gruff Indian leading this new bollywood film, how boring. And my reply would be the same. Why does it matter if the lead is yet again Indian. It shouldnt be a factor. Now if games were being made based in say Africa and they were picking white leads regularly I could see a point in complaining. 

If you agree with my boldened point then you should get why.  They wouldn't mention Indian because its the expectation that the lead will be indian and any other ethnicity would be far off from the countries population & raise eyebrows. Instead the comment would just be "oh, another gruffy, generic masculine lead" because Indian is a given... In the US you have almost half the population representing hispanic, black, asian yet very little of this represented in games, which is why white is also mentioned. As has been said 100x, change the race of the character and he wouldn't appear so generic on  appearance value and author of the review may have been more intrigued or found it refreshing. I've already broken my promise not to respond again in this thread so I won't elaborate anymore (no one outside of the this forum seems to care about this topic anyway lol) 

Have a nice week, hope you understand now

We're talking Oregon here and their white population dwarfs the Hispanic or African American populations. It's by far the most common and makes absolute sense when creating a character from this area.