User blog comment:Dr Mutran/Mass Effect 3 in VGA 2012 (Results)/@comment-4310096-20121208120922

A "Game of the Year" section of a contest will never leave an actual winner. The winner will get the anger of all the other games fans and all the fans of the other games have lost as well.

The nomination for a contest that determines the Game of the Year is simply too broad. Last year for instance, we had Skyrim which became GotY, and while I myself have no problem with that, I think that games like Portal 2 or Deus Ex: Human Revolution would've deserved it just as much. This year, I didn't even know the game that won until it was nominated for the contest, and I myself am surprised that the excellent Spec Ops: The Line didn't get nominated.

My point is, you can't determine a GotY without having millions of fans smashing down on you, as the scope of such a nomination is simply too broad. A fix for this could be sticking to genre-specific rewards such as Best RPG, Shooter, etc., but I think we all know that such a contest would have to include such a nomination.