Are you serious?
Final Fantasy VI: 20+ Characters, all with their own individual personalities, detailed back stories, and GOALS in the game. A villain who, for ONCE in the ENTIRE Final Fantasy series, is actually villainous!
Final Fantasy V: 5 Characters, with a mix-and-match, thrown together haphazardly job system, with uninteresting backstories, all with exactly the SAME goal. A villain named X-Death, who at one point turns himself into a splinter (yes, a splinter) and gets stuck in one of the characters, only to come back later and be like "ha ha! I was never actually gone! I was that splinter in your hand! How clever I am!"
How can you POSSIBLY consider those two equals!?
I know it's your opinion, but damn man...
Also, FF4 is so depressing. People just start dropping like flies, and it's like OH COME ON he didn't even HAVE to die to propel the storyline!