I spent a year away from my wife in Chicago for surgical fellowship training. It was really sad, I married her in May, left in June.
I lived in a small 500 square foot studio apartment in Chicago with no car and no friends or people I knew.
I played video games like a fiend, a mad sick fiend.
I put in about 210 hours in Oblivion. I think without glitching I have essentially a "perfect" save and a maxed out character. How bad was I? I have downloaded every add-on and basically have every item in the game and completed every single quest and also maxed out every stat.
It was crazy . . . SOOOOO glad when I came back home to my wife and family after that year but Oblivion will always hold a special place in my heart because of what it meant to me during that time.
Dennis