/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7335965
It stands for Sloppy Cum On Top platFORMER
Basically a platformer so good that you're in danger of coating the cartridge with sploot every time you start it up

>>7335965
Platformer with a mascot as the main character, be it something like your pic or a game company's mascot (or wannabe mascot).
But no, the long and short of it is that it is some /vr meme that most likely only one person consistently forces plus other people occasionally joining in just to shitpost.

>>7336132
But, 90% of every single platformer in existence arguably has a mascot. It just seems redundant

>>7336132
Exactly what platformer doesn't have a mascot as their main character?
Scotformer literally means the same as platformer.

>>7336154
What qualifies a mascot exactly?

>>7336160
literally any protagonist could be considered a mascot, even Kratos is considered a gaming mascot, is a meaningless term.

I want to know legitimately, which platforming game is not based around a mascot?

>>7336185
I think the implication is that the company wanted the character to be more than just a character in a game (like Bubsy). They focus on the character as a character instead of just as being a vessel for the gameplay. Gex is a wannabe mascot, Arthur in GnG is just a guy you play as.

>>7336154

Home Improvement for the SNES

>>7336237
How is Tim Taylor from Home Improvement not a mascot if you wanted to argue he is?

>>7336217
>Arthur in GnG is just a guy you play as.
i fail to see how he is not a mascot. The games are all advertised with him front and center as the face of the title. A mascot is just a fucking character that promotes an ip,product, institution or brand, every videogame protagonist under the sun can be considered a mascot.

>>7335965
OP, it was literally one super autist that kept spamming it here and eventually a few other jokers decided to adopt it, too.
>>7336237
Tim Taylor is the mascot of the show, so he's in a scotformer.
And that Genesis McD's game is fucking fun as hell, man.

>>7335965
It's just a really stale and forced meme term. Don't worry about it.

McDonald's has the deepest lore.

Even though it's just a made up meme term, if I were to specify a "mascot platformer" vs. a regular platformer, I'd define it as a pre-existing mascot being given a game rather than a game featuring a character that is just a mascot for that game series and nothing else. A broader definition could include studio mascots even if they debuted in the game in question, as even if a character is a mascot for their series they might not be the mascot for the whole studio.

>>7336473
thats super retarded

>>7336431
>oh say can you see!

>>7336431
That long-nosed monster looks like he's going to bite someone's head off!

scotformer is a sub-genre of scoot n' boot.

>>7336431
Wait, are those the same characters from MC Kids?

>>7336875
yes

>>7336626

>>7335965
That's not a scotformer. It's a burgervania.

>>7336132
This explanation is wrong. It has always stood for "sloppy cum on top platformer"
>>7336143
It seems redundant because that explanation is false

>>7336973
speak english

>>7336881
>Ronald's Kart Racing

>>7335965
A platformer that's so shit, it makes you want to drink copious amounts of scotch. Wayne's World for example.

>>7335965
now that the dust has settled, can we agree than scotformers are, dare I say it, the quintessential beltscrollerwillyvanias?

>>7337416
something, something Hollow Knight, probably