Origins was such a boring game. Hackneyed, utterly predictible plot, graphics that looked like the previous generation. There wasn't really much there to like, and then the next games were worse.
I might be biased as Origins was my first cRPG other than KotOR, but I still love playing through it. Just a real solid high fantasy story thats a touch grittier than you'd expect.
I gotta agree, I tried 4 or 5 times and just never got into it. Doesn't help that I'm not great at party RPGs, but yeah the story was slow and I remember being unimpressed with the dialogue options... It always felt like you were kinda pushed towards and inevitable outcome rather than really influencing things.