I see origins as a freaking amazing idea, and the dark urge is the next level of this concept.
Every game have its story settled for the main character. In mass effect sheppard is a human soldier, period, how cool would it be if we could live the story from a quarian perspective? (Not to shit on ME, I love it).
I see origins just as a series of subplots that I can choose for my character. They should be a little more customizable (see dark urge, I don't love that some origins are too heavily tied to a class or another), they should never result as being one more predominant than another (see Fane, he is the main character of DOS2 and that's wrong), but they are a revolutionary idea all around.
