I wasn't even doggin' on the one path style of gaming. It's not a bad thing. It's just a thing. A lot of players want to really really be told, "This is the game and your role in it is THIS." They want to be told, "You are the adventurers who save the land from the evil king" and want there to be a series of adventures constructed with only one, really, choice.

Which I think is fascinating. In video games, I'm not really interested in cut scenes. I'm there to play the game. I kind of like them, but they don't make or break a game for me. I have friends - in the Final Fantasy crowd - who live for those cut scenes, that the cut scenes define the game for them, these triggered events over which they have absolutely no control. I asked them why, and they said that it was like watching a movie except you got to play the action scenes. I suspect that a large number of table-top players are after the same experience. They really like bein' on that railroad. ;)

As you know, I don't like it. I'm all about the sandbox. And as a GM, I flatly tell my players, "Ideally, I want YOU to come with the adventures. You will come to me and say, 'I'm interested in those bandits, let's go and kick their asses' or whatever." Hehe.