Late to the Party

[DustyDrB]

I'm 23, and have long ago turned against the majority of pop radio in favor of older music and underground (read: indie. And no, I don't cry "sell-out!!" to every band that gets a taste of popularity) music. I generally seek out music rather than accept whatever happens to be playing, but one band has pretty much stayed under my radar until now: Fleetwood Mac. I remember reading one of Chuck Klosterman's books a few years ago and he was discussing the in-band drama and how it manifested during one of their more celebrated albums, Rumours. And I remember noting that I should give them a listen. But it slipped my mind and it wasn't until I heard "The Chain" a few weeks ago that I remembered this. Now I'm hooked, even if I should have been enjoying them long before now. So that's basically the theme of the thread. What is it in your life (anything) now that you feel you probably should have tried earlier?

 

[Chamale]

Magic: The Gathering. It's fun, and would have been fun 5 years ago. Plus, I made a ton of new friends at the school's Magic club.

 

[nintendoeats]

I've been sitting here thinking about it...

And I really feel that I have thus far discovered things at pretty much the relevant time. I heard Joy Division, it didn't make sense to me, then over time I developed the necessary attitude to "get" it. I'm sure there have been subtle changes that I have made to my life, but none noticeable enough that I could say I wish I had made them earlier.

 

[omega 616]

Saw probably, I heard people saying things like "omg, have you seen saw!" and I let it drift by for a few months 'cos I know popular movies are bad (twilight, high school musical, harry potter, anchorman the list goes on).

I finally gave it a watch a few months later and my mind was all over the walls! I am now a hardcore saw fanboy.

Admittedly, it was only months I let it go unwatched not years like seems to be in your case.

 

[SimuLord]

I didn't get Fallout 3 until the Game of the Year Edition came up on sale on Steam during the (epic, awesome) '09 holiday sale. It now sits at #3 on my list of Greatest Games of All Time.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Pokemon. Yeah, I played it when I was a kid, but I never got really into it again until about two years ago. Then I wondered what I was missing.

 

[Trivun]

Well, I'm currently in the process of coming up with a list I intend to blu-tack to my bedroom wall at university of all the things I really want to do, that I've never done before, as I feel that I've wasted my first two years at university and don't want to waste my final one too. Things include get a girlfriend, ride a bike through the Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales, eat sushi, learn the drums, and so on.

In my life,those are the only real 'late to the party' things I can think of. Oh, and that it's taken me until now, with the release of Plastic Beach, to learn to appreciate the joy that is Gorillaz...

 

[Chamale]

Magic: The Gathering. It's fun, and would have been fun 5 years ago. Plus, I made a ton of new friends at the school's Magic club.

I got into that a few weeks ago.

Was a lot of fun until AI opponents got boring.

Buy a $10 deck, or borrow a good deck, and go find a Magic group!

 

[omega 616]

Saw probably, I heard people saying things like "omg, have you seen saw!" and I let it drift by for a few months 'cos I know popular movies are bad (twilight, high school musical, harry potter, anchorman the list goes on).

I finally gave it a watch a few months later and my mind was all over the walls! I am now a hardcore saw fanboy.

Admittedly, it was only months I let it go unwatched not years like seems to be in your case.

Hey, hey, HEY!


By the beard of Zeus, how could you not like Anchorman?

The god awful Will Ferrell, his character aswell but I just can't watch a film with that guy in 'cos he always plays the same role.

Him and Ben Stiller, dodge ball would have been a great film if his piss poor acting wasn't in it, every film they grace they play the same "I am trying so desperately to be funny but failing short" role.

There is nothing funny about either of them, two drunk people can do a better at being funny.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I tend to go the other way. I like things before they're popular, then suddenly everyone is all over them.

Seriously, I read Harry Potter just before it got big (the summer of 1998 if anyone can remember that far back)

I read the first Twilight about a month before suddenly the whole thing exploded (and I hated it, which is why I always reserve the right to ***** about it. I hated it before it was popular to hate it dammit!)

Online gaming is a borderline example, I was online gaming up until about 2004/2005 and then stopped after it became an absolute monkey-house (Halo 2 grr), and I've recently gone back because of the furoror over DLC (ME/L4D/FO3 DLC, Yay)

I was playing guitar when I was 11/12, about two/three years before the rest of my year decided it was actually quite cool (gits)

And there's a whole other list of stuff like that, including Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, White Stripes...

 

[Atmos Duality]

Magic: The Gathering. It's fun, and would have been fun 5 years ago. Plus, I made a ton of new friends at the school's Magic club.

I got into that a few weeks ago.

Was a lot of fun until AI opponents got boring.

Oh dear. Beware the Cardboard Crack.
Once that bug bites, there's no treatment other than to let it run the course.

Though if you ever need group therapy, I'm slowly finding other MtG players here on The Escapist.

It took me moving away from my childhood hometown to drop the game, and even then only for 7 years. Thankfully, I'm also a penny-pinching bastard, and damn good at predicting the competitive metagame; so I have been able to capitalize on future money-rares to fund my collection.

OT: I'm unsure if I have ever really been "late" to anything worthwhile.
I guess Steam is the closest thing.

 

[katsumoto03]

I'd probably try friends...

 

[Scobie]

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[Captain Epic]

You've got pretty good taste in music my friend. Anyway to answer your question, i'd say the LOTR movies. For some reason I just only got around to watching them this year.

 

[TeeBs]

I really wish I got into playing music earlyer.

 

[smithy_2045]

Socialising.

 

[superbatranger]

Well, I just bought Saints Row yesterday. If I remember correctly, that game out like...2-3 years ago. So far, I love it.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Magic: The Gathering. It's fun, and would have been fun 5 years ago. Plus, I made a ton of new friends at the school's Magic club.

I got into that a few weeks ago.

Was a lot of fun until AI opponents got boring.

Buy a $10 deck, or borrow a good deck, and go find a Magic group!

I'd love to, but I've a pretty severe anxiety disorder - means I'm pretty much house-bound.

No biggy! I'll just go back to painting my Warhammer like a nerd.

Which army?

I'd have to say Steam. Never got into it until Metro 2033 required it (still a dick move in my opinion, as nothing was said on the box).

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I remember when Mass Effect first came out, the forums were all a-buzz with excitement. Having never tried any of Bioware's games, I honestly didn't care.

Then one of the people I subscribe to made this video...


...and it enticed me enough to try the first game. It's safe to say if Criken hadn't have made this, I'd have never played Mass Effect.

 

[theSovietConnection]

SNIPPY

Who don't I collect?

I guess my favorite would be... Well I made a sort of 'mini army' of Cypher and his fallen angels. I like that a lot.

But there's too, really.

I've always been interested in the Dark Angels, but I've been working on my Iron Warriors army for the most part. The new rules crippled me, though, miss my damn Basilisk.