I'm playing FF7, too!  At first, I thought it sucked but finding the materia, customizing my characters, learning enemy skills, and choosing the right party/limit breaks is as fun as ever.  I fell back in love with this game.  I'm almost at the end of disc one.

OK, I am playing FF7 now too =)

did you get yuffie :D >:O.

Darn right!  I got here and that other guy (trying to avoid spoilers).  I got them back in '97 by  myself but I had to resort to the internet to figure the combination to that safe and the right things to say when talking to Yuffie, this time.  We just left the Gold Saucer.  Next stop, following those guys with the keystone......

Now I´m at the part after Cloud and Sephiroth flashback and I have NO IDEA where to go

PD: Shin-ra headquartes after you are free is pretty bloody O_O

Now I´m at the part after Cloud and Sephiroth flashback and I have NO IDEA wher

Follow the grassy path on the world map, to the right of Kalm town, until you reach a prairie with a farm in the middle. That's the chocobo stables. Make sure you pick a very important materias there (Chocobo summon materia is a one chance only grab, if you miss it now, it's gone forever).

Interesting fact, the chocobo isn't a one time grab, it can be attained later on. If you fail to grab it the first time, find a lure materia then capture a few chocobos and leave them in the holding pen, talk to one of them and hey presto!!

Is MANUELF past the part where Barett suicides?

j/k j/k  j/k

Half the time, I had no idea where to go either.

@Jumpin

That post you made just sounds elitist and pisses me off.

I know how the fucking junction system works in FF8. I could understand refining items.

But guess what? IT WASN'T FUN.

Why should I have to get Quazecatl to learn Card, then learn Card Mod, then learn Item Mod, then junction the freaking magic. That's needless and repetitive.

Powering up your characters doesn't come from leveling (unlike every other game), but manual busywork that's dull and repetitive which can take hours just to give your characters a fighting chance. That's not fun.

The story was fine. Not bad, not good. 

But the game wasn't fun. It blows my mind how anyone could think bringing the enemies as close to dying as possible, then turn them into a card, then refine that card into an item, which half of the time don't even give good spells, then junction it and then repeat it is fun.

/rant

OT:

My favorite part of FF7 was The Northern Crate. The best final dungeon ever. And the part right before that boss with two tentacles where you're jumping is epic beyond belief.

Story-wise, it was definitely at The Whirlwind Maze.