Nick Offerman didn’t play The Last of Us because of a Banjo-Kazooie addiction

Nick Offerman has a confession: he doesn’t play video video games.

However not like a number of of his The Last of Us co-stars, who were advised to avoid the PlayStation game upon which it’s based, Offerman has a surprisingly completely different cause for not being a gamer.

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to advertise his acclaimed January twenty ninth episode of the HBO sequence, “Lengthy, Lengthy Time,” Offerman revealed that he has a historical past with video games. When Kimmel requested if Offerman had performed The Final of Us, the Parks and Recreation star mentioned that an habit to Nintendo 64 traditional platformer Banjo-Kazooie truly made him stop video games totally:

“Twenty-five years in the past, I performed my final online game and I’m very indulgent. I misplaced a few weeks to a online game known as Banjo-Kazooie. Two weeks glided by and I used to be like, ‘oh my god, the sluggish dopamine drip is so scrumptious,’ then it’s over and also you’re like ‘sure, I gained!’ and instantly I’m like, ‘what have I finished with my life?’ So I made a decision I used to be by no means going to do this once more. And so fortunately, as a result of video games have gotten so good, like The Final of Us, that I believe I’d be in a basement and I wouldn’t even be going to audition for exhibits like this.” 

Elsewhere within the interview, Kimmel confirmed amusing clips of individuals reacting emotionally to “Lengthy, Lengthy Time.” Each Offerman and co-star Murray Bartlett have garnered vital reward for his or her respective roles of Invoice and Frank, two companions surviving collectively through the years through the post-apocalypse. In truth, lots of those that have seen all 9 episodes of the sequence have said it’s the best of the bunch.

Total, The Final of Us has already turn out to be one in every of HBO’s hottest exhibits, and its second-biggest premiere after Home of the Dragon. The large early success has led HBO to already renew the sequence for a second season, which is able to adapt The Last of Us Part II online game.

Co-created by Neil Druckmann (the unique The Final of Us sport) and Craig Mazin (Chernobyl), The Final of Us follows Joel (The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal, a hardened man who’s employed to smuggle a younger teenager, Ellie (Recreation of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey), throughout a pandemic-ravaged U.S.

Regardless of that American setting, although, the sequence was truly filmed totally in Alberta, a indisputable fact that Mazin, Pascal and Ramsey raved about to MobileSyrup in a recent interview. The sequence’ manufacturing designer even mentioned he was surprised at how “clean” the province ended up being. And to advertise the province, Journey Alberta has additionally created an interactive map to let you view exact filming locations from the sequence.

The Final of Us is now streaming on Crave. Banjo-Kazooie, in the meantime, is offered within the Rare Replay collection on Xbox and on Nintendo Switch via a Switch Online Expansion Pack membership.

Picture credit score: HBO, Xbox