9 Major Problems With Fallout Nobody Wants To Admit
2. There's No Real Way To Impact The World
The Fallout series has always been full of little narrative decisions to make on your journeys through the wasteland, but they rarely ever have any lasting impact on the state of the world.
Going down different paths or making different choices could result in the player deciding whether a character lives or dies, but these scenarios are almost always self contained, and their consequences are never brought up again.
In a way it's like they never happened at all, as the only person they have an impact on is you. Outside of a major couple of scenarios, your decisions rarely matter in the grand scheme of things, and you only have to consider the consequences in the moment.
The closest players got to truly influencing the world of the games was in New Vegas, where there was a surprising amount of variation in the endings and the state of the strip. For the most part though, despite the amount of carnage you can cause and people you can meet, your effects are rarely ever felt on the world, and there's no real meaning to your actions.