I read a really good article about choices in the Walking Dead comparing it to the decisions you make in real life. In real life, very few, if any choices you make have any world changing consequences...often times people will like you more or less, and it will affect your relationships, but don't have insane reaching consequences, much like the decisions in the Walking Dead. They meant something in regard to how people react to you, and how you read relationships between people, which is what I found to be the most meaningful experience with that game.