I just started working out recently, and I felt the same thing a bit with the arms vs chest on bench press. Specifically, my arms scream, my chest doesn't. Have someone check your form, but you can also do what I did after one of my earlier chest workouts ... 3 hours post workout, I was wondering if I'd really worked the chest muscles so I tried to do a pushup. I failed ;) I find the bigger muscle groups (chest, quads, etc) I don't get that burning pain, I just get exhaustion in them. With squats for example, my legs don't hurt, but I can't walk down stairs properly right after a good leg workout.