My guess is the "jury" evenly distributing the awards between all the fairly popular, fairly critically acclaimed games amongst its categories as not to piss off anyone and make sure everyone goes home with something. Not sure I like that. It's always weird to me how an action adventure game can be GOTY but in the action adventure category, be beaten by another action adventure game. It happened in 2019 with Sekiro/DMC5. The Oscars allow certain films to completely sweep the board as to emphasise just how greatly influential and groundbreaking that film is. The VGAs don't really allow that.