User blog comment:Bubby08/Surviving this Hiatus/@comment-5128792-20121023025726/@comment-1635895-20121026232042

I always used to play through the games really slowly. In the first week I'd probably cover a good quarter of the game, but then I'd slow down and try stretch it out for about six months to a year.

I remember I managed to play FireRed for about a year until I finished the entire story, and I enjoyed it that much more.