Gotta love the lowest common denominator.
I think its particularly funny reading people complaining about The Walking Dead winning game of the year awards since its, "Not a game."
Well go play the majority of modern AAA games. You will essentially be placed in a hallway, where you can only accomplish one objective, no need for rational thought, and combat is usually as simple as point and click.
Modern Military Shooters like Call of Duty or Medal of Honor are the best examples of this. But even Skyrim is a great example as well, dungeons are just a straight line, and the combat and RPG elements are so 'streamlined' to require no need for rational thought.
Point, click, win, walk forward, repeat. They may doctor it up with visual effects, sounds, and maybe some alternate variables, like enemies throwing grenades in CoD, but you are essentially playing a visual novel if you break it down far enough.