Well, I must disagree with you there. There’s a lot of compelling storytelling and a lot of things don’t go the way you want them to, and they shouldn’t. Not in a story that is expected to have any kind of depth. It’s hard to have an engaging story when you know your protagonists can never fail. Suicide is not often depicted in this game (if at all) that I can remember (barring self-sacrifice for war), but if suicide awareness was a focused issue the writers wanted to address, then I would think they would treat it with the delicacy that the topic deserves.
However, this was a tangent that we started regarding other taboo subjects. Going back around to the intent of the thread, and that is LGBT representation, I fail to see any negative effects on “young minds” by simply existing in the media. While completing suicide is a taboo subject and an absolutely negative outcome, this is not the case for perception of LGBTs. There is not an absolute negative outcome for someone who is LGBT simply existing.
They exist in the real world whether you want youths to observe them or not, and the attempt to censor this group from their entertainment media doesn’t do anything positive to how they might encounter such demographics in the real world.