You may have heard that Halo infinite is a terrific first-person shooter, a solid return to the shape of an old Xbox series. What you may not know is this Halo infinite is also really funny. And nowhere is that more true than in the one-liners fired by Grunts, the lowest-ranking cannon fodder you come across in the campaign.
Remember, these are not stoic one-liners designed to instill confidence and stir fear into the hearts of their opponents (i.e. you, the player). No, they are often remarkably specific, comical descriptions of what is happening, or just surprisingly silly confessions like this: “You are big and strong, but I’m scared!”
gloriole‘s grunt has always been funny to some extent. Back in 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved, you could stab a grunt with a plasma grenade – a small, electric blue explosive that sticks to any surface – and possibly hear them scream, “Oh no, not again!” has that happened before? Do you understand that you are in a simulation?
Fun fact
Joe Staten, the current creative director of Halo infinite, voiced grunts in all developed by Bungie gloriole Games: the original from 2001 to 2010 Halo Reach.
Grunts weren’t memorably hilarious in either Halo 4 or Halo 5, both developed by 343 Industries, but their bottomless well of one-liners seems to have returned Halo infinite. In less than a week of grunting dialogue from Halo infinite has achieved coveted cross-social media status, a level of online popularity where videos from one social media platform (TikTok) appear on another (Twitter) and still have viral success:
Halo infinite‘s grunts seem to have a line prepared for any situation.
“Afraid of fighting on foot? Deceitful coward ”, one can scream if you attack it with an aircraft. When you get out, you hear more quietly: “He got off! Now we can run. ”Grab someone else and they can Clues how the Master Chief – a six-foot-tall super soldier with metal-alloy bones – no way weighs more than a grunt. (Yes, Halo infinite‘s physics is wonderfully strange.)
Start shooting an enemy base and you might hear a grunt appeal, “It wasn’t me, I just work here!” Take out a few invisible enemies. You may hear a grunt that asks, “Have you killed him yet? Dibs on the helmet! ”Seconds later a shy“ … guys? ”(There is also my personal favorite: the grunts that sprint away from you, their hands frantically waving in the air:“ I’m running away from my problems! “)
Even when they win, grunts keep their sense of humor. If you are killed, you will hear lines like: “I hope human life after death sucks!”; “You suck worse than I do”; “This will teach you to do whatever the hell you did” and “It’s a great day to be me”eee. “(Really, can you imagine the raise this grunt is going to get?)
But maybe that funniest grunt line found in Halo infinite so far it’s also the saddest. “Man, I really love my dangerous, ungrateful job” before collapsing into that laughing pile of sobs that anyone with a full-time job is at least moderately familiar with. Unfortunately, Halo infinite has no glass-enclosed conference rooms.
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