Well said. It is subjective. I happen to really love LOTR, and I'd say it is their best game (I'm on my second copy). But I don't turn to it all the time, because it is a longer playing game. Plus I have to be in the mood for it. I remember when I got my first one, I'd play obsessively. Over and over trying to get farther. Each game, I'd have a strategy. Sometimes I'd play to complete multiballs. Others, it was just destroy the ring this time. And still other times it would be TABA, or finishing modes. LOTR has so much going for it. But sometimes you just want the brutality of Iron Man... at which point I play Iron Man.

In LOTR, it is just the integration of the theme, and some of the best rules ever written in a pinball machine. Does that make it the best? I think so, but we all need to decide that for ourselves.

You had me right up until you said Maiden. I could make an argument for the others (even the one I don't like), but Maiden is just a puppy. It needs to grow up before it can run with the big dogs. Maybe you're excited about it, but much to early to be listed in the "greatest" conversation.