Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard revealed Fallout 76 today and promised that more info would be told at E3 2018. It's being rumored it will be a online RPG type game, but nothing offical has been said yet.
I don’t think it’ll be the direction they take for future games, rather they want to try something different on the side. If this was how they wanted the series to go in the future I imagine they’d call it Fallout 5 instead.It's a bit upsetting that this is the direction the Fallout series is heading in. Fallout 4 was already a very divisive entry. People new to the series loved it, but many longtime fans were pretty upset with it, myself included. The gameplay was alright, but it just didn't feel like a Fallout game. It was really missing that Fallout charm. I fear the worst for this latest entry, as it seems that we're heading down the path of Elder Scrolls Online. I'll give it a chance, but my expectations aren't very high. Perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised, who knows.