Hi
Firstly (This is not an attempt to suck up to you guys =D) but........ GREAT GAME. I played the demo twice and just went and bought the game. Fantastic concept, and surprisingly quite difficult on Pro mode. (Unlike most other games involving CPU, who majorly suck even at high difficulty)
So I just want to request and suggest a few things I think are a) easy to do and b) would make the game a little better. I'm sorry this is a bit long and I'm sorry if things here have already been suggested. ^^
First: Motion Blur. Although I'm not too certain if DX8 can render motion blurred frames or textures. I think it would be a nice touch to add a little more sense of speed, especially in the air. I'm not sure what the best method/implementation of blur would be (whether a screen-edge blur or a full-screen motion blur). Maybe the first could be implemented for driver-view and the second for external camera?
Second - and I know this has been suggested - but please. Span/fish-eye the camera a little when it's following the car (external mode). A lot of the time I really don't feel like I'm doing 170 mph. It doesn't have to be done to an insanely obvious extent, just enough to give a better illusion of going very very fast. ^^
Third: A keyboard shortcut / option to toggle between fullscreen and windowed, and also the ability to move the game window in Windowed mode. I run Media Player whilst playing the game and I have to close the game or force it to minimise using Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Vista's menu up, so being able to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode would be useful. ^^. Also being able to move the window, as it just defaults it to the top left corner.
Fourth: More display resolutions. I tend to play games on my laptop at 720x480 res as it generally gives me a better frame rate but NSR won't give me the option to choose that frame rate. Similarly I play games on my desktop PC in 840x480, which also isn't an option... I think it would just be nice if the game supported all of the possible resolutions the connected monitor can display.
Fifth: There's only three cars in pro mode that really prove any major difficulty in getting past (The stealth-skinned car particuly =P) and I'm a little sick of the backmarkers intentionally taking my racing line through the last corner of every track so..... I'm just wondering if a nice difficulty setting could be implemented to make all the opponent cars more equal in their own skill / speed levels. Not necessarily so they're -all- as fast as that stealth car but just so for once the red car isn't the one I always lap fifteen times. xD
(Three versions of this; one where they're roughly as fast as the 1st car in Amateur, one where they're all as fast as 1st - 3rd in pro and then maybe one where they're -all- as fast as the 1st car in Pro mode would be interesting. I know it's not really sim-like but I do find it amusing I only get passed because I make mistakes, and not because the guy behind gets a corner faster than me. =P)
Sixth: In real life racing drivers never take the exact same line around the course as one another and, except at the start, I just get the feeling like the cars are just intentionally following the one single racing line. Now I'm not saying this is bad, but it would be nice to see the CPU drivers taking some more inventive and varying lines through corners. It would also be nice if they weren't so useless at overtaking one another, especially on Red Run. It looks like they don't know there's so much road to go around each other. ^^
(Maybe this could include the apparent 'short cuts' that I heard some tracks have. =P)
Seventh and final: I'm SICK of the stealth car always being first and the red car last. I think it would be nice if the drivers were randomly assigned a race skin and car model each race (except for Championship mode, of course) although it's my own personal thing that I'm sick of the slow cars being the same colours. Also it would be nice to make sure the CPU cars don't use the car skin you're using, although again, it's just a preference. xD.
Hope it isn't too long and I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining at you guys. If I didn't like the game then I wouldn't have bought it, and I wouldn't be trying to suggest to you guys things to add and improve. ^^