28th SEA Games 2015 Singapore

The 28th SEA Games 2015 Official Logo

28th SEA Games 2015 Official Mascot - Nila

The 28th SEA Games 2015 will feature 39 sports discipline in 36 sports with 402 events. 

The 28th edition of the Southeast Asian Games more popularly known as the 28th SEA Games will  take place from June 5 - 16, 2015 in the sprawling city state of Singapore. Eleven (11) member countries of the Southeast Asia region will participate and compete in 36 sports featuring 39 sports discipline in 402 events. 

The opening and closing ceremonies of the games will take place in the new state of the art National Stadium. Completed in 2014, the National Stadium is reputed to be the world's largest covered arena with a seating capacity of over 50,000 people and is located within Singapore's Sports Hub.

Preliminary matches in some games like soccer football, table tennis and fencing and medal matches in table tennis, fencing and synchronized swimming took place days ahead of the Opening Ceremony on June 5. 

The official mascot of the games is called Nila, a lion which represents the iconic symbol of Singapore. It's name was taken from Sang Nila Utama, the founder of Singapore. It has a height of 1.9 meters with a fiery red mane that symbolizes passion for sports and with a heart shape face which symbolizes friendship among Southeast Asian countries.

To learn more about the games, schedules and results visit the official website of 28th SEA Games 2015 Singapore: https://www.seagames2015.com/ .

Catch the 28th SEA Games 2015 Singapore LIVE stream  of sports action on https://www.youtube.com/user/SingaporeSports

Source:

28th SEA Games 2015 Singapore - https://www.seagames2015.com/ 

28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2015 Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Southeast_Asian_Games

The Sims 4 Mods I Use

These are the mods I used for The Sims :

CORRUPTED Mods

Starbucks Package which includes:

Apron
Top 
Ads
Cabinet
Chair 
Fridge
Menu

Handyman Package
Phone Interaction for Gardener and Maid
Esmeralda Small Round Glasses Male/Female Teen/Adult
Oepu_yu Short Curly Hair
Clutter Box Package 
Fewer Stalk Bystander
Rockabilly Vampire Hair
Shimrod No Distance Blur
Simalicious Set Pool Party

NEW Mods

Go To School (Elementary and High School)
Career Normal Progress x10
Work Study Hard 

EXISTING Mods

Dark Data Fruit Chair Animal Crossing
Dark Data Fruit Table Animal Crossing 
Esmeralda Morpheus Shades Male/Female Teen/Adult
Lexicon Luthor Male Antistencil
Mojo Squarely there Modern Loveseat Recolor
Mojo Squarely there Modern Sofa Recolor
Mojo Wipe Yir Feet
Zerbu Go To School 
Zerbu Sim Generator Bug Fix
Zerbu Student Generator
Zerbu Venue List

Playing The Sims 4: Introduction

I have been playing The Sims since decade ago and the rest they say is history. I have been playing The Sims, The Sims 2 and 3, The Sims Medieval and now The Sims 4. It is entertaining, fun as it is addictive controlling the lives of your characters and how you want to run their lives all throughout their Sims life stages. More importantly, the things that are happening in the game also happen sometimes in real life or the opposite it making it more exciting to play the game. 

The Sims 4 brings new twist to the games' series as it brings out new game play features like emotions, facial expressions that influence how they behave and act, graphic interface etc. Just like in the previous series of The Sims, I will post screenshots of my games with captions and descriptions about it. I hope you enjoy it.

For the meantime, since The Sims 3 I have been using cheat codes to enhance further my gameplay. For the Sims 4, here are my favorite cheat codes I have been using.


freerealestate on/off  or true
bb.showhiddenobjects
bb.enablefreebuild
CAS.fulleditmode
motherlode
money
stats.set_skill_level major_
traits.equip_trait
careers.promote /
soak.enable_soak_party_situation
soak.create_soak_party_situation

There are also some mods I am using also to improve and enhance the gameplay like new hairstyle, objects, skill speed-up. 

I will post the screenshots of my gameplay of The Sims 4 as well as its gamepack Outdoor Retreat and expansion pack Get To Work. 


Photo Sources:

Electronic Arts (EA) Inc. 
Maxis
The Sims Studio 
The Sims 4™
The Sims 4™ Outdoor Retreat
The Sims 4™ Get To Work  

The Sims 4 Traits Compatibility

TRAITS COMPATIBILITY

The Sims 4 has a lots of new additional skills, traits and the all-new aspirations to complete throughout your Sims lifetime. In my honest opinion, here are the compatible and ideal aspirations and careers for every traits in The Sims 4: 

Traits

35 Personality Traits

Emotional Traits

Active – Athletic Aspiration, Deviance Aspiration, Astronaut Career, Criminal Career, Motor Skill

Cheerful – Aspirations: Creativity, Family, Love, Popularity, Social

Career: Culinary, Entertainer, Painter, Writer, Babysitter, Barista, Fast Food and Retail Employee

Creative – Aspirations: Creativity, Food, Knowledge, Nature, Popularity, Mental, Social 

Careers: Culinary, Entertainer, Painter, Writer, Manual Labor

Genius – Aspirations: Creativity, Deviance, Fortune, Knowledge, Nature, Mental 

Careers: Astronaut, Criminal, Entertainer, Painter, Secret Agent, Tech Guru, Writer,

Gloomy – Aspirations: Creativity, Deviance, Popularity, Social 

Careers: Criminal, Entertainer, Painter, Secret Agent, Writer

Goofball – Aspirations: Family, Love, Popularity 

Careers: Entertainer, Painter, Writer

Hot-Headed – Aspirations: Athletic, Creativity, Deviance, Fortune 

Careers: Criminal, Entertainer, Painter, Secret Agent, Writer

Romantic – Aspirations: Creativity, Family, Love, Popularity 

Careers: Entertainer, Painter, Writer

Self Assured – Aspirations: Creativity, Deviance, Family, Food, Fortune, Knowledge, Love, Nature, Popularity 

Careers: Criminal, Entertainer, Secret Agent, Tech Guru

Hobby Traits

Art Lover – Aspirations: Creativity, Food, Nature, Popularity 

Careers: Entertainer, Painter, Writer

Bookworm – Aspirations: All 

Careers: All

Foodie – Aspiration: Food 

Career: Culinary, Barista, Fast food

Geek – Aspiration: Creativity, Deviance, Knowledge, Nature, Mental 

Careers: Astronaut, Criminal, Entertainer, Painter, Secret Agent, Tech Guru

Music Lover – Aspiration: Creativity, Knowledge, Popularity 

Careers: Entertainer, Painter, Writer

Perfectionist – Aspiration: All  

Careers: All

Lifestyle Traits

Ambitious – Aspiration: Creativity, Deviance, Family, Fortune, Knowledge, Nature, Popularity / Careers: All

Childish - Aspiration: Family, Popularity 

Careers: Any

Clumsy – Aspiration: Any 

Career: Any

Glutton – Aspiration: Food 

Career: Culinary, Barista, Fast Food

Insane – Aspiration: Creativity, Deviance, Fortune, Knowledge, Popularity 

Careers: Criminal, Painter, Writer

Lazy – Aspiration: Entertainer, Family, Knowledge, Love, Nature, Popularity 

Careers: Entertainer, Tech Guru, Writer

Loves Outdoors – Aspiration: Athletic, Creativity, Deviance, Knowledge, Nature, Popularity  Careers: All

Materialistic – Aspiration: Fortune  

Career: Criminal, Secret Agent

Neat – Aspiration: Any 

Career: Any          

Slob - Aspiration: Any 

Career: Any

Snob – Aspiration: Deviance, Entertainer, Fortune, Nature 

Careers: Criminal, Painter, Secret Agent

Social Traits

Bro – Aspiration: Athletic, Creativity, Family, Love 

Careers: Criminal, Entertainer, Secret Agent, Tech Guru

Evil – Aspiration: Deviance 

Careers: Criminal, Secret Agent

Family-Oriented – Aspiration: Family 

Career: ALL

Good – Aspiration: All except Deviance     

Career: ALL except Criminal and Villain Branch of Secret Agent

Hates Children – Aspiration: All except Family 

Career: ALL

Loner – Aspiration: ALL except Popularity 

Career: Astronaut, Painter, Writer

Mean – Aspiration: Deviance 

Career: Criminal, Villain Branch Of Secret Agent

Noncommittal – Aspiration: ALL 

Career: None

Outgoing – Aspiration: Creativity, Family, Love, Popularity  

Careers: Culinary, Entertainer, Secret Agent

Photo Source:

www.lifewiththecrustcutoff.com

www.simcitizens.com  

The Sims 4: Initial Pre-Gameplay Review

For more than a month now since it released on September 2, The Sims 4 fans and players enjoy posting their videos, pictures and even share the stories of their gameplay online for other gamers and non gamers to see. While most of the avid Simmers most of whom were faithful The Sims series gamers already hooked up to the game, there are a handful of skeptics who are still cautious in buying and/or playing the game due to some factors such as price, content and issues.

When it was released, people were aghast about its steep price saying they can't afford a game that expensive and a little more bucks more than the previous game in the series. I think that people are concerned about it due to the fact that the developers of the game made some compromise in lieu of some of the new twists in  the game thus is the justification I think and that the game is still new to the market the price is reasonable. After quite sometime, the price of the game will plummet significantly.

Most of the avid fans of the game are concerned much of the game's content and after its release, lots of backlash took place and complains flooded EA about the absence of key game contents such as the swimming pool, toddlers and an open world where Sims can roam around their hometown without loading screens and also stuffs in buy mode such as dishwashers, sprinklers etc. There is even a petition launched by Sims fans to bring back these contents. Because of this, The Sims 4 suffered serious low ratings review from some prestigious Game Critics and Reviewers with an average of 6.5 out of 10. EA producer Rachel Rubin Franklin admitted later that the reason for the compromise is the developer's focus on The Sims 4's new core game engine technologies. However on October 1, 2014 Maxis confirmed that some features like the swimming pools and ghosts will be back and new careers will be added through a free patch updates. Good thing they listen to their solid fans.

For me, the biggest concern would be the issues, glitches, bugs and errors a player will encounter during the game. This will seriously affect gameplay, its attributes and the game's entertainment value. The many issues and glitches experienced by the players that were reported to EA was due to the fact that the game were rushed to beat the deadline for its release this September 1 so they miss to fix some bugs, glitches and errors of the game but these days they strive hard and work overtime to fix these issues. Good thing for the gamers so they could enjoy playing the game nonstop.

For the meantime here's what I think about the game based on the videos, pictures and post I've seen and read online before my turn to play it. This is my initial pre gameplay review:

Create A Style Demo - EA and Maxis released this free demo  for all the fans to check one feature of the new game in the series. The create a style demo allows a player to create a Sim to his or her liking by modifying a Sim's body, face, outfits and even adding the all new emotions and aspirations for some twists and some touches of traits (although they reduce it to 3 this time plus a bonus trait from aspiration making it 4) in which all the three attributes greatly influence how your Sim behave, act and interact with other Sims and of course another all-new walking style for your Sim for some attitude! There is a big improvement in modifying the body. A player can move the cursor to the body parts and it will highlight which areas of the body can still be modified. You can expand or compress their head, make it broad or narrow their shoulder, give them biceps or make them skinny, big or small breast for men and women, small or big butt and for some touches add some tattoos for some personality. Make-up is still there and add some accessories to make a customized Sims to define their uniqueness and individuality. Since this DEMO is just an initial preview of EA for its fans to have a sneak peak of what's in store in the game, the full feature of CAS will be available on the game. However I think  EA could have included all the life stages or at least a kid in the demo with only limits on outfit and accessories so we will know what to expect in the full version.

Origin - In the previous series, if you want to download and learn about other fellow Sims player's creations and stories or vice versa you need to log in to The Sims Exchange, the official community page of The Sims series to be able to do that as well as meet and make friends with them halting your gameplay temporary. In Sims 4, with the digital distribution software Origin (formerly EA Download Manager) downloading, uploading and sharing stories has never been this easier because it is integrated directly into the game. It means that during the gameplay beside the build mode in the upper right corner of your gameplay screen is the option for The Sims community wherein you can download creations, make friends and share stories or otherwise, upload your own. This one is a brilliant idea that EA got it right.

Build Mode - I love it where for the fact that EA made a big leap forward on this one and has a significant innovation than in the previous series of the game. What I'm talking about is the sorting of things to build. A player can now choose to build by room or by parts or area. If a player is too hasty to pick each and every item in a room his household needed then he can buy an entire room with all the stuffs necessary or he/she chooses to build an individual parts or area and buy individual stuffs. I love this buying an entire room since it minimizes your time spending on the look out for things you need consuming only a fraction of your gameplay. If you don't find it necessary to buy an entire room, one can build  each and every area to create a magnificent abode a stylish structure standout among the neighborhood. To compliment your home, there are some stuffs you can purchase to fill the house and the good news, there are lots of new cool and fun stuff to purchase some of which are unlockables specific your Sim's career, skill or aspiration. This is another reason I love this game. It never fails to surprise us with new things to play around.

Graphics and Sound - Another innovation of the Maxis and EA is the graphic animation. The animation in Sims 4 is better that looks like the animated films nowadays a far cry from the animations in the previous series. I also love the sound which is cooler and relaxing now than ever. Now  for the fun part however is the gameplay. With a lot of skills and new careers to complete, playing Sims 4 is a bit more challenging now than ever excluding all the cheats and mods. For some twists, in Sims 4 the traits (which has some new cool introductions) together with the all-new emotions and the aspirations will now directly influence how your Sims will behave, act in a certain situation and condition and how they interact with other Sims . In other words, your Sims has a mind and feelings on their own now and sometimes it will surprise you on their actions and behaviors. This is where I will enjoy it most.

After seeing several of the gameplay I can say that Sims 4 is worth the bucks and worth your time playing. As the shortcomings is being addressed, the fun of this game endless as new things are added from time to time through patches or game updates. I can say now that The Sims 4 is an above average game I can't wait to play. I will give it 8 out of 10 for now. Till my gameplay review, Happy and Enjoy Simming everyone! 



Source: 

Carl The Sims 4 Guide
The Sims 4 Wikia 
The Sims 4 Wiki 
Sims VIP Community


Photo Sources: 

The Sims 4 forum at thesims.com 
EA The Sims 4 Forum 
IGN.com