I don't understand how you can spend 1000s of hours on it? I'm estimating I've spent somewhere in between 300 and 500 hours on Oblivion, and I've done everything on it that you can do numerous times. How do you then spend double, even 10 times, that amount of time on it?
2 hours 3 days a week - 6
6hours every week for 4 weeks is 24
24 hours every month for 12 months is 288 hours
288 hrs for 5 years 1,008 hrs
2 hours a day 3 days a week is a pittance
This coupled with not rushing the quests, getting distracted, mods on pc? Pfffft