8 Video Game Glitches Too Awesome To Hate

8. Speed Up Leon - Resident Evil 4

In 2007, a GameFAQs user by the name of Ditman333 left the Resident Evil 4 speedrunning community positively shook when they revealed a glitch which allowed players to speed up Leon's movements by a factor of 1.5x.

The glitch is performed by equipping the Striker shotgun, aiming it, and then visiting your inventory before the weapon's laser sight appears. Equip any other item before exiting the inventory and Leon will now do everything at 1.5x speed. Simples.

Beyond allowing speedrunners to beat the game considerably faster, the glitch made the game easier for regular players, with Leon able to move around, reload, and fire weapons much faster than before.

Abusing the glitch also allowed players to skip bosses, access out-of-bounds areas of the map, and therefore effectively break the game.

The so-called "Ditman glitch" could be used on all ports of the original version of Resident Evil 4, and while it was unsurprisingly left out of Capcom's recent remake, they did at least pay wink-wink homage to it by giving players an 8% boost to their running speed whenever the Striker is equipped.

While there's a fine line between glitches which show players how the sausage is made and those which make the game so trivial as to be unenjoyable, the Ditman glitch is an all-timer for quite literally changing the game where speedrunning is concerned.

And even if you're a mere filthy casual, it's pretty damn neat too, right?