Title says it all really. I was hoping someone might know?
I hope so 
Maybe, they do look more serious this time around. Like in Reach. The grunts weren’t funny anymore 
Though i hope to the great Moa in the sky we can understand the alien languages again. I missed that in Reach (while the trade off being they are more intimidating) and it wouldn’t make sense (canon wise) for Chief not being able to understand them.
Especially after Cortana rewrote the software/hardware of the Mark VI HUD.
Sure, they can and should be funny, occasionally. Overall they should be a bit more intimidating.
I don’t want to hear Grunts yelling profanities at me (mispronunciation or censorship like blam! is fine) nor do I want Grunts making witty jokes at the wrong time.
I just want to be able to observe them naturally doing their thing. The Grunts in Reach seemed to panic less often. The Grunts in H3 were hard as hell to shoot when they were panicking. But the Grunts in CE were great when panicking. They gave me a feeling of unprecedented elation.
H4 Grunts may look fearsome but they simply need to act like Grunts to win my adoration. I want to chance upon activity like this, not encounter hyper alert Grunts (that kind of stuff belongs in Firefight). The video I posted above is actually a rare moment in H3. Normally, you can only watch this kind of thing in Theater.
I’d much rather see CE esque encounters, because there was greater potential in messing around with them.
When they talk with high pitched voice or when you shoot their back and they going flying into the air in H4 tell me if it’s funny