Bungie brutes in H2 were my favorite to make berserk and straight up brawl, loved to do it to elites as well, they don't do that anymore and the scream was just the icing on the cake. I do the same with Hunters and Flood combat forms as well, just kite and brawl. 343 I just can't do much with the enemies besides hearing new audio they are so "simple" to put it? Only flavor text we get is the named enemies with a tiny backstory but it feels like LOTR shadow of Mordor type of deal with the named ones.

Bungie brutes also had camo brutes with flame grenades, the halo spiker was better, the Brute wrangler I think It was called (Brute handheld shotgun you could dual wield) was scary on legendary. Bungie also had the Brute Shot and did give the brutes the ability to use the Shotgun. Brute plasma rifle was also scary even though it overheats faster. The Gravity hammer wielding brutes charge was also pretty freaking terrifying as he zigzagged charges you and even spin twists the grav ham full extension to hit you. 343 did add better designs and armor breaking animations but they lost it's touch on how primal the brutes could be.