All those characters you mentioned were made by japanese. So......it really doesnt make sense.
I mean the Japanese made anime and they look more "white" than Japanese. It the type of art or character design they like. I dont think its really meant to target the american or white audience.

And you dont actually control a human in all games.....

You might be thinking to much with this I mean I dont think even the devs themselves go into too much thought about the race. Especialyl since alot of them are from fictional planets and all that. Theyd just like to make a cool character.

probably because white american's by alot of videogames

Iranians are indo-europeans, "whites", not arabs. Turks and Kurds are indo-europeans too.  And at the times depicted in the game Seljuq Turks had already seized power in sunni Islam for more than a century, while Saladin was a kurd. So it's quite difficult to define a unique race in crossroads of different civilizations as it already was Palestine.

While most of the first christian communities started inside emigrant jew communities and starting from them spread across the world, so it's quite difficult for a white christian to rule off the possibility of being of remote jew ancestry.

"Pure races" exist only in very isolated communities, like Ainu, Pygmies, isolated tribes in virgin forests, etc.

I think this is kinda off topic even though you make a legit point.

how about GTA san andreas the main character is black and in both of the true crime games ones asian and the others black.

I don't know about that one. I think the Japanese realize fully well that these people aren't Japanese. The story tellers usually use the idea that the character is half-Japanese when the game's story is based off currently existing countries. Think Yuri in Shadow Hearts Covenant.

However, it is also interesting to note that in Shadow Hearts: From the New World, Shania could have easily been the main character. Her story has a lot of depth and she's the one with the fusions yet that title goes to good old Johnny with what? You guessed right "blond hair, blue eyes"

Even in LOD, the game I'm currently playing, Dart has blond hair, blue eyes. Its a ps1 game so you could rgue that he was meant to be Japanese but when you look at the hi-res pictures in the manual. I don't know but he seems pretty white to me!

What he said.  Best selling GTA game of all time.  Forget about that game?

I'm not sure about that one. Whites killing whites is a lot different from a Sudanese killing whites. It  won't matter to most gamers? Then why aren't developers taking the risk. Don't use games like San Andreas as examples because those games don't have heroes as leading men, they have villains.

For those using Altair as an example, the whole point is that Altair could pass for white  because some have even suggested that the so called "Aryans" originated from Iran anyway. All the counter-examples people use seem to have characters that would be considered white if not for the game's setting.

A lot of video games "pander" to Asians also. There is a reason for both. More games are probably bought by white American males then anyone else. Also, they "pander" to Asians because several are made in Japan and bought by Japanese people. Also, it depends on the type of game. Many of you shooters are targeted toward Americans because they buy them up. On the other hand, many RPGs are targeted toward the Japanese because they enjoy them. Also, a lot of American sports games have rap playing in them beause a lot of African Americans buy them. It's all about targeting your fan base. That's all.

That's only one game and the protagonist isn't all that traditional because he's really not a good guy. It's almost kind of stereotypical when one of the few non-white protagonists is heavily associated with crime.