i think that that representation should be meaninful, not coming from a quota. does GoW protag need to be straight or gay or whatever? it has ANY impact on the game? should him being straight/gay or white/black/green means its a game that discriminates? thats my point XD
I'm not sure why I'm even responding to you seriously, considering you're literally expressing amusement at the terrible representation of minorities in games, but yes, it would be incredibly meaningful if the Gears of War protagonist was gay, yes. Because it's a massively popular series, and that character gets a lot of exposure.
Nobody is saying that games with straight white dudes as protagonists are discriminatory because the protagonist is not a PoC, a woman, or LGBT+. At least not inherently.
But representation is
incredibly important to all minorities.
There are 2 really, really important factors to representation of minorities in media.
One: Normalization.
By having minority characters in various forms of media/entertainment, these minorities are shown to be part of our society. This reduces the "otherness" of these minorities, emphasizes and validates our existence, and makes it clear that we, just like the straight white dudes, are either regular, normal people, and/or can be heroic, as well.
Two: Idolization and Empowerment.
This is mostly for kids and teenagers, but it helps adults as well. It's incredibly important for young people to find media that helps them to not feel alone, to not feel like they are wrong for being the way they are, and that tell them that they too can do good if they put their mind to it. To give my own example: I've grown up in an environment that was very homophobic, and I ended up with a lot of self-loathing and even was genuinely suicidal. I still struggle incredibly hard with my confidence and clinical depression, and my phase of self-loathing definitely did not contribute positively to this. If there had been just a few gay characters in the TV shows I watched or games I played, my lot in life may have ended up being nowhere near as much of a struggle.
Obviously, if you're not queer or any other minority, you would never understand this kind of struggle. This kind of fear of rejection and otherness that constantly is reinforced by entertainment and society, and with it, most game protagonists being straight white dudes.
Just because it doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean it wouldn't matter the world to someone else.