It turns out that James McAvoy was so addicted to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that he burned it — as in, literally set the game on fire so it wouldn’t take up more of his time.
McAvoy let it slip in a recent interview with Forbes that Bethesda’s seminal open-world RPG was his obsession. Stating that his partner at the time bought a copy of Oblivion, and he was always staying up late playing it. Then, one evening, he chose to end his addiction quite theatrically.
“I went to bed at 5:35 a.m.,” says McAvoy. “My car beeped its horn outside at, like, 5:45. And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I need to do something.’ So I got the disc out of the Xbox 360, and I turned the gas hob on. I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, ‘Right, we’re done, we’re over, never again!'”
Fans were either cheekily sympathetic towards McAvoy’s extreme measures or out to roast him.
Lmao what pic.twitter.com/uVqOCYR7ur
— Axe🗿🇵🇸 (@westernunion2k) August 23, 2021
getting this game for james mcavoy pic.twitter.com/rxTBK2vjEW
— Mon 🥭 (@M0nkena) August 23, 2021
No one tell him about digital downloads https://t.co/nqTK0OFeXY
— Tara "Riot Starter" Voelker (@LadieAuPair) August 23, 2021
After that 30 hour straight mark. pic.twitter.com/pjySdchlO7
— David (@Mooy004) August 22, 2021
https://t.co/uHN5w5ypUp pic.twitter.com/BLVQtX1T0C
— Monsterciel (@Monstruociel) August 23, 2021
If you're an old-ass PC gamer like me, you might assume "burn" here means that McAvoy merely made copy of his game disc, and you'd be wrong. https://t.co/GuO7vAkB7b pic.twitter.com/G8qP3dHOYS
— 🐦SummerThaum!🐦 (@ThaumPenguin) August 23, 2021
That’s some extreme dedication right there.
