lol you're calling skin color a stereotype?

i suppose in future everybody will have to paint themselves purple

I've been so many places, 

I've seen so many faces, 

But nothing compares to those, 

Blue and yellow purple pills. 

You've given up on listening, haven't you?

Maybe he disagrees with what he hears? 

In this actual sentence replace the word white with any other race and simply wouldn't sense because there is not an abundance of non white  "gruff" protagonists in AAA games.

It'd be like a writer saying yet another Mascot lead 3D platformer, a sentence that may have made sense in 2000 but not today where mascots & 3D platformers are rare compared other kinds of characters and genres.

What if he said yet another white mascot 3d platformer? My comment would be the same. Why is it necessary to bring up the colour? 

Because the race contributes towards the trope.  An example is how Asian nerd is a trope in lots of popular media but black nerd is not. Its not that complicated.

You are defending the indefensible, the color of the skin should not matter; and as such it should not be involved as an argument.  It is quite simple.

The author whether he wanted or not, was being racist.

lol ok, why do I get the feeling you never experienced any actual racism before? Mention of  the race of the character leaves a bad taste in your mouth? Its ok, it doesn't amount to anything beyond that. Thankfully the general population is moving towards having a better understanding of racism so trivial things like this don't draw traction outside of gaming forums. This will effect no ones life, it doesn't reinforce any harmful stereotypes and the sentiments like the IGN author was expressing actually help the industry think broader, more inclusively and can make a difference to those who are actually lacking in decent representation. They could of left white out of the description and the point would've still been understood but equally by including "white" they've just been even more descriptive of why the character is generic, all the meanwhile no one is harmed. 

Alternatively we can pretend this is an attack on the oppressed white male and a clear moral crime which will only reinforce the oppression of the white male. Do you also think it's sexist & racist against white males when people were complain about old white men disproportionately dominating politics?