Deathmatcher wrote:Doing subtitles is not technically difficult, but it would be a lot of work. Also, I have concerns that this wouldn't spoil the intended atmosphere to some degree.
Well, there is always a compromise solution. I guess that before you recorded Reily's lines, you wrote them down. So you don't need to make the transcript, you already have that. Also, you already have ACS scripts which play his recordings wherever needed in the maps. So just add a line into these scripts which will dump a transcript for given audio recording into the console. This way, you won't have to bother with breaking the transcripts into individual subtitles and their timing, which would be at least 90% of the work (I made movie subtitles years ago, so I know).
Many players would overlook that something appeared in the console, but there is a simple yet effective solution - in the opening map, make text hints which would basically say "If you need audio transcripts, you'll find then in the console whenever Reily starts talking". The Ultimate DooMer used hints like that in his Serpent: Resurrection mod and they worked great. Also don't forget to mention it in the accompanying TXT file (though I'm not sure how many people read those...).
OR, you can just place those transcripts into separate TXT file. Alt-Tabbing out of Zdoom to read it is no real problem, after all.