Sitting in a box, singing our song, all day long.

Since the inception of RPG gaming in the 1970s, the way player imagination has been handled hasn't changed. Players still strive to don the best gear while fitting into the stereotypical roles of fighter, mage, thief and healer. In this week's "The Cutting Edge," Garrett Fuller voices his concern about the stifling of player imagination and how we might alleviate that sort of "in the box" thinking.

One of the best ways to break any standard is customization. SPORE is currently set to launch in Spring 2008 and offers players a huge amount of customization on their little monsters and animals. There's a database that houses all these designs. You can spend hours molding your creature to look just the way you want it. This is an area sorely lacking in MMOGs. Unfortunately while WoW gave us a ton of item options, they gave players very little customization. If you found a suit of high level armor, you were probably wearing the same suit as everyone else.

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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