After playing both, I found Fallout more immersive and it kept me until the end. I got bored of the elder scrolls pretty quickly. The characters in Fallout have more of a likability, whereas the NPCs in TES are boring and difficult to get attached to.
Also he voice acting in fallout is sublime.
COME ON.. skyrim is fantasy adventure fallout is real-time adventure tho fallout 3 still remains as the most realistic game ever made. Tho skyrim got more awards than fallout 3 at this day and age, skyrim has better (DLC patches) to come at this day and age fallout 3 has less bugs and glitches... SPOILER! : both are verry good altho one thing why skyrim has won for me, fallout final mission once completed you cant play it anymore, even if you load it you cant go out of the door you come in from so your trapped in a building (IT SAID THE DLC WILL FIX THIS IDK IF IT DOES OR NOT).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.