Originally Posted by
WarZidane
Looking at non-sequels from the last couple of years, this seems like an outdated complaint.
While direct sequels such as God of War and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus still fit this (since, y'know, people respond so well to replacing a main character halfway through a series) a lot of games in 2017 and 2018 don't. For starters, there's a plethora of games where you pick your character's gender (MH World, Prey, Destiny 2, among others).
Then there's the games where the main character's not even male (Horizon, Gravity Rush 2, Nier: Automata, Hellblade, among others).
And finally there's plenty of games these days where the male main character isn't white or Buff McBeefcake (AC: Origins, for which I'll count Bayek as the MC even though technically you're playing the lady who's playing him, Breath of the Wild, in which Link is so androgynous people initially thought he might be Zelda or a female Link, No No Kuni 2, where your MC is a tiny catboy, and others)
tldr: old complaint, industry's already been moving away from this stereotype